Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination

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Year: 1993
Pages: 301
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 471575453

Product Code: 788194372

Description

Fred Setterberg (au); Lonny Shavelson (au) (ph). Includes personal accounts of ordinary people fighting the frightening spread of toxic contamination. Each year, 22 billion pds. of toxic chemicals are spewed into our air, water, & soil. The book describes the devastating effects of these chemicals on the lives of people in dozens of communities across America. People who have managed to fight back, by any means they can, to save their families & their communities. Deals with how our nation contends with its most fundamental problems. It is about the people who have faced the health effects of haz. wastes head-on, & the democratic uprising engendered by that confrontation. Illustrated.

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